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(Photo: abbyladybug) Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated — Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example. Others are ignored, and we can …

Occupy Porto Alegre protesters demonstrate in Brazil, October 15, 2011. (Photo: Jornal Sul21) In late January, two Wall Street Occupiers took a trip to Porto Alegre, Brazil, …

In today's On the News segment: GOP plans to uphold Grover Norquist pledge and reject Obama's budget proposal, Rick Santorum’s Super PAC lets the truth slip out about politics …

The Great Recession produced the largest setback in racial wealth equality in the United States over the last quarter century. In 2009 the average white household’s wealth was twenty …

Former Pennsylvania Senator, Rick Santorum, is a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination who is fast coming to the fore. He won the Republican primary in Iowa (albeit by …

On January 11, 2012, after the assassination of the fourth Iranian scientist in two years, the New York Times declared: “In recent days, several events have combined to create …

One of the basic pay to play schemes we see in most states and in the Federal government involves the privatization of government services to third party contractors who …

Losing your job is hard on any worker. But imagine discovering from the company website that your job is gone. It happened in December to 136 employees …

The most strenuous objection to an Iranian attack by Israel comes from recently retired Mossad head Meir Dagan, who called attacking Iran “the stupidest thing I have ever heard.” …

President Obama’s most recent budget, released today, featured the “Buffett Rule,” named after and supported by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, which would require millionaires to pay a minimum 30 …